Lost Languages Revealed in Ancient Library

Saint Catherine’s Monastery, nestled in the shadow of Mount Sinai, is home to one of the world’s oldest continuously used libraries and it holds thousands of ancient manuscripts and books. Older parchments were sometimes erased and reused leaving multiple layers of writing known as palimpsests. Some of these contain lost languages which are being revealed by the Sinai Palimpsests Project using spectral imaging technology.

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Source: Smithsonian Magazine (2017)

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